"Krone" commentary

Take the cell phones away from Kogler and Rauch!

"Hello, my soccer mice": "Krone" Vienna department head Michael Pommer bans the Greens Kogler and Rauch from social media.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Screenshot/TikTok/Kogler)

The latest appearance by Sports Minister Werner Kogler and Health Minister Johannes Rauch is a trip down the social media toilet. "Krone" Vienna boss Michael Pommer on the own goal with the Greens and why we Austrians are not your "soccer mice".

When I was little and had my whole life ahead of me, instead of celebrating my personal age pyramid, my mother forbade me to watch the cartoon series "The Barbapapas" on TV. She said it was pure childish stupidity. A happy family, a utopia in itself, and then one that could turn into anything. Into tents, guitars, lanterns, shells - or chairs. What an absurdity, not even chairs want to be chairs when people are constantly driving their backsides into their faces. And so, instead of being allowed to watch Barbabapo turn into a tree, I had to go with my mom to the real ones in the park.

If I were a child today, I'm sure my mother would call me in and say: "Go ahead and watch the Barbapapas, be one for all I care, but the Greens' social media are forbidden!"